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To: sea_urchin who wrote (20845)	5/1/2004 6:27:28 PM
From: Gary H	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81220

From chomsky's "Hegemony or Survival"; Start "Justic Dept. thinking is illustrated by a confidential plan leaked to the Center for Public Integrity, entitled "Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003." This "new assault on our civil liberties" vastly expands state power, Yale Law Professor Jack Balkin writes. It undermines constitutional rights by granting the state the authority to rescind citizenship on the charge of providing "material support" to an organization on the attorney general's blacklist even if the accused has no idea that the organization has been blacklisted. "give a few bucks to Muslim charity Ashcroft thinks is a terrorist organization," Balkin writes, "and you could be on the next plane out of this country." The plan states that "an intent to relinquish nationality need not be manifested in words, but can be inferred from conduct"; inferred by the attorney general, whose judgement we must honor, on faith. Analogies have been drawn to the darkest days of McCarthyism, but these new proposals are more extreme. The plan also extends powers of surveillance without court authorization, permits secret arrests, and further protects the state from scrutiny of citizens, a matter of great significance to the reactionary statists of the Bush II regime. "There is no civil right - not even the precious right of citizenship - that this administration will not abuse to secure even greater control over American life," Balkin concludes. President Bush is said to have on his desk a bust of Winston Churchhill, a gift from Tony blair. Churchill had a few things to say on these topics: "The power of the executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him the judgement of his peers, is in the highest degree odious, whether Nazi or Communist". The powers the Bush administration is demanding go well beyond even these odious practices. Churchill's warning against such abuse of executive power for intelligence and preventative purposes was issued in 1943, when Britain was facing possible destruction at the hands of the most vicious mass murder machine in human history. Perhaps someone in the Justis Dept. might want to contemplate the thoughts of the man whose image faces their leader every day. End

To: sea_urchin who wrote (20845)	5/1/2004 6:39:00 PM
From: Ahda	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81220

SA AG can't control China's inflation neither can she so she has to raise rate but her problem is huge she must unpeg at some point. So as she sits there holding on to the peg she increases the numbers of Yuan and in that process devalues it's ability to create value. She has to target her own currency and when she does there is a high possibility she will increase inflation here substantially. AG faces problems he can't correct. Loan demand here is not increasing but inflation is. Our deficit has to increase due to an utterly stupid war and no matter who is in power here we have to deal with this war. Those seeking free and seeing a free for all is certainly isn't going to aid transition. BWDIK We appear to be exempt from any and all rulings of the UN. Twenty five nations in the Euro twenty five different economies under a peg. AG is good but to me i don't think he can cover this one.